Ein jüdischer Dienstbote : Charakterbild mit Gesang in drei Akten, ca. 1866, 1873-1895.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Elmar, Carl, 1815-1888.

Language:

German

Physical Description:

12 items

Contained In:

Learned Collection on German-Language Theater. Folders 100-104

Place of Publication:

ca. 1866, 1873-1895.

Language Note:

In German.

Summary:

Materials related to rehearsal and performance of the play, including a published copy (Wien: Wallishauser, n.d.; Theater-Repertoir Nr. 168, "Den Bühnen gegenüber als Manuscript gedruckt"), which has been annotated as a prompt-book; a handwritten scenario (incomplete); and 10 handwritten role books, for the following parts: Ferdinand Grünberg, Gewerksbesitzer; Gabriele, seine Gattin; Ursula, seine Mutter; Stollmann, deren Schwager; Herr von Glimmerstein; Salomon Kraus; Moritz Kraus, sein Sohn; Sarah, Wirthschaftlerin; Florian, Bedienter; and Michel, Gewerbearbeiter. (No music is included.) All of the materials except the scenario are labeled as belonging to Theodor Bloch, who ran a theater lending library in Philadelphia from around 1880 to 1895. The published copy dates from around 1866. A playbill clipping (most likely a newspaper ad) pasted to the inside front cover of the book shows the cast of a performance on 13 Aug. 1873 at Deutsches Sommer-Theater, Turner-Halle (Philadelphia), and each role book bears multiple names on the front cover, indicating at least five or six different casts of actors that performed the play at different times, including the 1873 performance represented in the playbill clipping, as well as two other performances in Philadelphia documented elsewhere in the collection: see the theater newspaper of 29 Nov. 1878 (folder 703) and playbill of 27-28 April 1880 (folder 679).

OCLC:

155866607